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Kris Aquino expressed support for comedian Vice Ganda after he was chastised on social media over the weekend over a photo with Ilocos Governor Imee Marcos.

Photos of Vice Ganda and Marcos arriving together in Misamis Occidental floated online recently. This led to suspicions that the former is supporting the senatorial aspirant in an early campaign bid for next year.

However, the Kapamilya host denied these claims and insisted on Twitter that his meeting with Marcos was only coincidental.

Kris, hailing from a political clan, soon got dragged in the controversy despite her repeated insistence that she would stay away from politics.

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Kris, the daughter of martyred senator Ninoy Aquino Jr., wrote on Instgram that she doesn’t perceive the photos of Vice Ganda and Marcos to be an early form of campaigning.

The Aquinos had been the political rivals of the Marcoses since the martial law years.

Vice Ganda, meanwhile, had been close friends with Kris since 2012 when they starred in a movie together.

Their friendship eventually became distant over some rumored misunderstandings on business, but the two remained on good terms based on their social media posts.

Aquino shared that she was hesitant to respond at first even if her name had been tagged by a handful of people following the incident.

She tries her best “to stay away from political discourse” and respects any person’s decision to support a political candidate over another.

“I’ve stayed away from political discourse because if I cannot help bring a better understanding of a given situation, and if I’ll only add noise, best for me to stay quiet. I’m respectful of a person’s right to choose who they’ll stand with because I was brought up to uphold democracy,” part of her post read.

Around the same, Vice Ganda also earned some criticisms for his remarks, along with those by his co-host Jugs Jugueta, when the latter dressed up as detained Senator Leila de Lima on the longtime running noontime show “It’s Showtime.”

Many accused the two comedians of being insensitive to the plight of the senator who had been detained for more than a year.